The house still isn't sold. We are concerned about this because we'll have to make mortgage payments if we're here or not. If it isn't sold very soon, we're going anyway.
We didn't get out of Delaware last week like we hoped and it doesn't look like we're going to get of here this week either, too many loose ends to take care of.
Today we listed my 66 Mustang on Ebay. This was a gift from Bob on my 50th birthday. It is 95% restored with all the parts to finish it included. It just kills me to get rid of it, I never even got to drive it. There isn't enough time to finish it as we want to be out of here by the time the cold weather sets in. Enough said about that.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
October 2006
The house is still on the market and I'm holding open houses on my own every Sunday. We've had quite a few come through but still no offers. How discouraging.
We've got a list now of who's getting what as far as the household furnishings are concerned.
Time is flying by for us now. We're making many more trips to Goodwill and our trash collectors hate us. Some weeks there is so much we have to put out stuff at our neighbors, Ed and Bev's. Thank heavens for great neighbors like them.
Our goal is to be out of here by the last week of October or the first week of November at the latest. We'll go to Virginia to meet up with good camping buddies, Rich and Jackie Burck of VA and Bobby and Shelly Evans of lower, slower Delaware. We met Rich and Jackie several years ago at Kiptopeke State Park in Virginia and have been friends ever since. They started their full timing adventure this summer but haven't made it out of Virginia as yet. We met Bobby and Shelly through RV.Net an online forum for RV'ers. They too will start their full time adventure soon. Their house sold for asking price in one day! Lucky them! Both Jackie and Shelly will be travel nurses, moving to a new assignment every 13 weeks or so.
Bob and I will be "workampers", a term to describe people like us who live in their RV and work at campgrounds (or sometimes on the outside) for site and wages. Typically, Bob will work at maintenance since he is a carpenter by trade and well versed in the others and I'll work in the campground office/store.
We've got a job lined up in Florida for the winter and a job for summer of 2007 in Missouri.
We've got a list now of who's getting what as far as the household furnishings are concerned.
Time is flying by for us now. We're making many more trips to Goodwill and our trash collectors hate us. Some weeks there is so much we have to put out stuff at our neighbors, Ed and Bev's. Thank heavens for great neighbors like them.
Our goal is to be out of here by the last week of October or the first week of November at the latest. We'll go to Virginia to meet up with good camping buddies, Rich and Jackie Burck of VA and Bobby and Shelly Evans of lower, slower Delaware. We met Rich and Jackie several years ago at Kiptopeke State Park in Virginia and have been friends ever since. They started their full timing adventure this summer but haven't made it out of Virginia as yet. We met Bobby and Shelly through RV.Net an online forum for RV'ers. They too will start their full time adventure soon. Their house sold for asking price in one day! Lucky them! Both Jackie and Shelly will be travel nurses, moving to a new assignment every 13 weeks or so.
Bob and I will be "workampers", a term to describe people like us who live in their RV and work at campgrounds (or sometimes on the outside) for site and wages. Typically, Bob will work at maintenance since he is a carpenter by trade and well versed in the others and I'll work in the campground office/store.
We've got a job lined up in Florida for the winter and a job for summer of 2007 in Missouri.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
September 15 - 30, 2006
We've had calls from home buyers wanting to the see the house. They came, they saw, they didn't buy.
We had our first open house and Bob made himself scarce but I hung around with Rick, our agent. I had even put a roast in the crock pot so the house smelled oh so good We had two people come through and I left out the back door as soon as they drove up. What a disappointment! What is happening? Why isn't this house selling? Its been six whole days and not one offer! Oh well, at least we had a good dinner.
Meanwhile, we're still downsizing.
We did manage one camping trip to see our campground owner friends, John and Patty of Warwick Woods Campground. If you ever get to Pennsylvania, in their neck of the woods, be sure to look them up and tell them Bob and Snookie sent you. They run a very nice campground. John and Patty treated us to dinner and it gave us a chance to talk without the "business" interfering with our time together. Thanks John and Patty!
On September 29th Bob retired from his full time job with the Delaware National Guard. To celebrate we joined our nearest and dearest at a crab feast at the Elks Club where we're members. A good time was had by all.
We had our first open house and Bob made himself scarce but I hung around with Rick, our agent. I had even put a roast in the crock pot so the house smelled oh so good We had two people come through and I left out the back door as soon as they drove up. What a disappointment! What is happening? Why isn't this house selling? Its been six whole days and not one offer! Oh well, at least we had a good dinner.
Meanwhile, we're still downsizing.
We did manage one camping trip to see our campground owner friends, John and Patty of Warwick Woods Campground. If you ever get to Pennsylvania, in their neck of the woods, be sure to look them up and tell them Bob and Snookie sent you. They run a very nice campground. John and Patty treated us to dinner and it gave us a chance to talk without the "business" interfering with our time together. Thanks John and Patty!
On September 29th Bob retired from his full time job with the Delaware National Guard. To celebrate we joined our nearest and dearest at a crab feast at the Elks Club where we're members. A good time was had by all.
Friday, September 15, 2006
September 1 - 15 2006
The painting is done and new carpet was installed the first week of this month. We have just a few little odds and ends projects to do. Its time to call in the real estate agents to interview. We decided to interview three agents, two from well known agencies and one from an agency that neither one of us had ever heard of but advertised 3% total commission. Now THAT is right up my alley, the more money we put in our pocket the happier I am. It was a hard decision to pick just one, we like all of them. In fact, one of them is even a friend of ours. The dollar signs swayed me and we went with the lesser known company (to us) Sellers Connection.
On September 9th we welcomed Brittany Pierce into our family when she married our nephew Dusty. Of course Brittany has been a part of our family for a lot of years already as they started dating when they were young teenagers. She was a beautiful bride and we wish them many years of happiness.
September 10th is the date Bob has been waiting for. Today is the day he retires from the Delaware National Guard. We arrived at the armory at 7 a.m. and met my parents and uncle there for the ceremony. Bob was awarded several medals and given some special mementos of his National Guard career. He was also promoted to the state recognized rank of Sergeant Major (E-9). Bob served 33 years in the Armed Services with tours in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
This is the last project did for the National Guard during his weekend drills. He worked with local Seabee unit to complete this.
On September 12th the For Sale was planted. I cried. This was after all our first and only home for the last 26 years. As our agent, Rick Carll left he said, "I wouldn't be surprised if it sells this weekend". Bob and I stood in the front yard waving goodbye to him thinking the same thing. Bob had put so much work into it these past few months it was just in great shape and also had that all important "curb appeal". Little did we know that September 12th is the date the market died in our area.
September 15th marked my last day at work for Horizon Services. I had only worked for this company for a few months in a part time status but they were kind enough to surprise me with a little going away party. Although I hadn't worked there very long I truly did enjoy it and more importantly, the people I worked with.
On September 9th we welcomed Brittany Pierce into our family when she married our nephew Dusty. Of course Brittany has been a part of our family for a lot of years already as they started dating when they were young teenagers. She was a beautiful bride and we wish them many years of happiness.
September 10th is the date Bob has been waiting for. Today is the day he retires from the Delaware National Guard. We arrived at the armory at 7 a.m. and met my parents and uncle there for the ceremony. Bob was awarded several medals and given some special mementos of his National Guard career. He was also promoted to the state recognized rank of Sergeant Major (E-9). Bob served 33 years in the Armed Services with tours in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
This is the last project did for the National Guard during his weekend drills. He worked with local Seabee unit to complete this.
On September 12th the For Sale was planted. I cried. This was after all our first and only home for the last 26 years. As our agent, Rick Carll left he said, "I wouldn't be surprised if it sells this weekend". Bob and I stood in the front yard waving goodbye to him thinking the same thing. Bob had put so much work into it these past few months it was just in great shape and also had that all important "curb appeal". Little did we know that September 12th is the date the market died in our area.
September 15th marked my last day at work for Horizon Services. I had only worked for this company for a few months in a part time status but they were kind enough to surprise me with a little going away party. Although I hadn't worked there very long I truly did enjoy it and more importantly, the people I worked with.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
August 2006
Still no camping for us, we're way too busy sorting through more STUFF to get rid of, still painting, doing the landscape and trying to keep up with the all the projects that we keep adding to the list. Will this ever end?
The neighbors homes are up for sale. Lots of people looking, both sold in a matter of days. One took just two days to sell and they got their asking price and other sold in 12 days, also getting their asking price. Good news for us!
I gave notice to my employer this month, one more thing to cross off the list of Things To Do.
Bob celebrated his 58th birthday on the 30th. Didn't do anything special, he painted.
The neighbors homes are up for sale. Lots of people looking, both sold in a matter of days. One took just two days to sell and they got their asking price and other sold in 12 days, also getting their asking price. Good news for us!
I gave notice to my employer this month, one more thing to cross off the list of Things To Do.
Bob celebrated his 58th birthday on the 30th. Didn't do anything special, he painted.
Monday, July 31, 2006
July2006
We're going camping for the first time this year. We "won" tickets for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill on Ebay. We'll have to travel to West Virginia to see them but that's ok. Well, it was OK until we found out just a few hours before the concert that it was canceled due to McGraw's sore throat. Oh well, at we least got to see a little bit of West Virginia and we met some nice people at "Big Earl's Campground".
Things around the house are in high gear now. We're painting, fixing and spending a ton of money on materials. We're looking to put the house on the market in late August or early September. Hours are long as we work at our jobs and then come home to work on the house.
We found out two of our neighbors are putting their houses up for sale in August, that's a good thing, will make for lots of real estate traffic.
I turned 53 the 26th of this month, no big deal this year, just another day.
Things around the house are in high gear now. We're painting, fixing and spending a ton of money on materials. We're looking to put the house on the market in late August or early September. Hours are long as we work at our jobs and then come home to work on the house.
We found out two of our neighbors are putting their houses up for sale in August, that's a good thing, will make for lots of real estate traffic.
I turned 53 the 26th of this month, no big deal this year, just another day.
Friday, June 30, 2006
June 2006
June already and we haven't been camping once this year.
This is the month our car learns its way to the Goodwill drop off point. Seems like I just have to get in, say Goodwill and it takes off in the right direction. We've made lots of trips to Goodwill!
We have become makers of lists. Lists for things that have to be done to get the house ready for market, lists of calls to be made for one reason or another, lists of things we have to get to start our full time adventure. At least it didn't get to the point that we had a list of lists!
Our list for getting the house ready is growing by leaps and bounds. By the time its done it will be a brand new house and it was in darn good shape to begin with. We'll do re-do the landscaping, paint throughout, new carpeting throughout, new roof on our shed/porch building and list goes on....and on.....and on.
This is the month that we really get involved with EBAY. The people at the post office and the UPS store know me by name now. Ebay is a great thing! We sold so many things on Ebay and got a good return to boot. Why didn't we put that router and bits on Ebay? Oh well, hindsight is always 20-20.
This is the month our car learns its way to the Goodwill drop off point. Seems like I just have to get in, say Goodwill and it takes off in the right direction. We've made lots of trips to Goodwill!
We have become makers of lists. Lists for things that have to be done to get the house ready for market, lists of calls to be made for one reason or another, lists of things we have to get to start our full time adventure. At least it didn't get to the point that we had a list of lists!
Our list for getting the house ready is growing by leaps and bounds. By the time its done it will be a brand new house and it was in darn good shape to begin with. We'll do re-do the landscaping, paint throughout, new carpeting throughout, new roof on our shed/porch building and list goes on....and on.....and on.
This is the month that we really get involved with EBAY. The people at the post office and the UPS store know me by name now. Ebay is a great thing! We sold so many things on Ebay and got a good return to boot. Why didn't we put that router and bits on Ebay? Oh well, hindsight is always 20-20.
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